Brag Turvey

Not really. I don't brag. I just want to share my happiness over my latest acquisition. Meet my . But first, let me sahre with you my Nokia (with a bit of Sony) evolution.

My very first phone was a given to me by my lolo. I had it in my third year in college, three years after people started owning s. There was a point when it was actually on but you can't see a thing in the LCD. I had to wrap it with rubberbands just so I could read my messages.

One day, while my friend Gidg and I was at the AS 2nd floor lobby in UP, we saw a . I got it and said, "Gidg, can I keep this? I need a new phone." Good deed princess Gidg refused. "No!" she said. We'll find the owner. So she called the first number in the phonebook and after 30 minutes, I and the phone owner were satnding face to face. She was a rich chinese girl who could afford even ten thousand s.

I told Gidg, "I could've been a proud owner by now!" She said, "Ano ka ba! We did a good deed. Babalik sa atin yan tenfold."

Months later, my brother bought himself a new phone. He gave me his old , which I used until I graduated and landed on my first job.

In my first (and current) job, I had an officemate who sells celfones in 3 to 6 month payment terms. I got - my first MMS phone.

The crashed often. Some keys even stopped working. The call disconnect key (which is important when you make a lot of "missed calls") stopped working. So I decided to get a new phone, which I got under a 24-month (what was I thinking?!) payment term. It's a that I'm still paying for until now.

Then my cellphone subscription plan's contract ended meaning I could get phones for free or at insanely low prices. That's why I now have a

And this is only the fourth out of Gidg's so-called "tenfold". I can't wait. Hikshiks.